Papers on the Nectar System
This page lists papers on the Nectar system. Separate pages list papers on
Nectar tools and applications
and
Gigabit Nectar
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E. Arnould, F. Bitz, E. Cooper, H.T. Kung, R. Sansom and P. Steenkiste.
The Design of Nectar: a Network Backplane for Heterogeneous Multicomputers
. Third International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Boston, April 1989. Also published as technical report CMU-CS-89-101.
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Eric Cooper, Peter Steenkiste, Robert Sansom, and Brian Zill.
Protocol Implementation on the Nectar Communication Processor
. ACM SIGCOMM '90 Symposium, Philadelphia, September 1990. Also published as technical report CMU-CS-90-153.
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Peter Steenkiste.
A Symmetrical Communication Interface for Distributed Memory Computers
. Proceedings of the Sixth Distributed Memory Computing Conference, Portland, April 1991.
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H.T. Kung, Robert Sansom, Steven Schlick, Peter Steenkiste, Matthieu Arnould, Francois J. Bitz, Fred Christianson, Eric C. Cooper, Onat Menzilcioglu, Denise Ombres, Brian Zill.
Network-Based Multicomputers: An Emerging Parallel Architecture
. Supercomputing '91, Albuquerque, November 1991.
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Peter Steenkiste.
Analyzing Communication Latency using the Nectar Communication Processor
. ACM SIGCOMM '92 Symposium, Baltimore, Maryland, August 1992.
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Peter Steenkiste.
Analyzing Communication Latency using the Nectar Communication Processor
. Computer Communications, May 1993.
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Peter Steenkiste.
Network-Based Multicomputers: A Practical Supercomputer Architecture
. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Volume 7, Number 8, August 1996, pages 861-875.
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